Top Gun: Critic Reviews

Once 'Top Gun... gets back to earth, the master of the skies is as clunky as a big land-bound bird.

The dogfights are absolutely the best since Clint Eastwood's electrifying aerial scenes in Firefox. But look out for the scenes where the people talk to one another.

Every moment is hyped for maximum visual and visceral impact, but Scott doesn't display the slightest bit of interest (or belief) in the actual characters and situations.

Set in the world of naval fighter pilots, pic has strong visuals and pretty young people in stylish clothes and a non-stop soundtrack.

Top Gun is about the training of the Navy's best fighter pilots and their blooding in cold war incidents, and the only thing Director Tony Scott has not brought up to date is the story.

This paean to hotshot Navy fighter pilots and high technology attracted mass audiences despite its familiar plot and characters so vapid they vanish from memory as soon as the house lights come up.

Tom Cruise classic still revs engines.

Watchable but rarely enthralling...

Like many films from its decade, Top Gun is steeped in 80s culture %u2013 from the top 40 music to the clothing styles.

(Its success) supports the pop-psych analysis that pre-actualized teenage boys are the most homosexual beings in existence.

A movie for adolescents, and adults who willfully decide not to know better for a couple of hours. [Blu-Ray]

You get about thirty minutes of good movie in Top Gun, and most of that comes at the end.

This movie gets worse with time.

Noisy, slick, and shallow, Tony Scott's MTV-like actioner became emblematic of 1980s blockbusters, reflecting in its macho bravado and cheap elitism the mood of the Reagan era; in the process, it also made Tom Cruise the biggest star of his generation

The story is risible, the direction routine, the underlying ethic highly questionable; but the flying stirs the blood like speed.

Not exactly a cinema classic but it has not only become a cultural icon but remains infinitely rewatchable.

today its legacy is more of a punchline as an analogy for '80s overindulgence in action films and as a vehicle to be freely reinterpreted

thrilling but far too rah-rah

Everything wrong with 80s movies in one film.